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In the culture of the San (various groups of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Angola), healers administer a wide range of practices, from oral remedies containing plant and animal material, making cuts on the body and rubbing in 'potent' substances, inhaling smoke of smoldering organic matter like certain twigs or animal dung, wearing parts of ...
Upon Viet Minh's victory over French in 1954, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) unified all Buddhist sect into an organization called Unified Buddhist Association of Vietnam (Hội Phật giáo Thống nhất Việt Nam) in 1958. [2] [6] The first leader was Thích Trí Độ, and the headquarter was in Hanoi.
On 13 March 1964, Nhất Hạnh and the monks at An Quang Pagoda founded the Institute of Higher Buddhist Studies (Học Viện Phật Giáo Việt Nam), with the UBCV's support and endorsement. [13] Renamed Vạn Hanh Buddhist University, it was a private institution that taught Buddhist studies, Vietnamese culture, and languages, in Saigon.
Nghê is the localized mascot of the Kỳ Lân created by the Vietnamese [citation needed], different from the unicorn or the lion.Nghe is the incarnation of a dog, raised to the same level Four Holy Beasts (Long, Lân, Quy, and Phụng) and different from the Chinese guardian lion.
Ven. Thich Nhat Tu or Thích Nhật Từ (釋日慈) in Vietnamese (Saigon, 1969) is a Vietnamese Buddhist reformer, an author, a poet, a psychological consultant, and an active social activist in Vietnam. [1]
Phan Khôi (October 06, 1887 – January 16, 1959) was an intellectual leader who inspired a North Vietnamese variety of the Chinese Hundred Flowers Campaign, in which scholars were permitted to criticize the government, but for which he himself was ultimately persecuted by the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Institute for Sustainable Development of the Central Region (Viện Khoa học xã hội vùng Trung Bộ) Institute for Sustainable Development of the Central Highland- Viện Khoa học xã hội vùng Tây Nguyên; Institute of World Economics and Politics; Vietnam Institute of Economics; Institute of State and Law; Institute for Human Studies
Phan Bội Châu (Vietnamese: [faːn ɓôjˀ cəw]; 26 December 1867 – 29 October 1940), born Phan Văn San, courtesy name Hải Thụ (later changed to Sào Nam), was a pioneer of 20th century Vietnamese nationalism. In 1904, he formed a revolutionary organization called Duy Tân Hội ("Modernization Association").